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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month 2023
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Viva Lola Espinoza!
by Ella Cerâon
Cursed in love, Lola Espinoza finds herself torn between two very different boys during a summer spent with her grandmother in Mexico City, where she tries to break the curse while learning about herself, her heritage and the magic around us all. Simultaneous eBook.
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Cemetery boys
by Aiden Thomas
Determined to prove himself a real brujo to the traditional Latinx family that does not accept his true gender, a trans boy summons the ghost of the resident bad boy, who refuses to return quietly to death.
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Does my body offend you?
by Mayra Cuevas
When outspoken feminist rebel Ruby McAllster stands up for a girl being humiliated into covering up, they become the leaders of the schools dress code rebellion, which forces them to face their own insecurities, biases, privileges and the ups-and-downs of newfound friendship. Simultaneous eBook.
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The Luis Orgega survival club
by Sonora Reyes
"Ariana Ruiz wants to be noticed. But as an autistic girl who never talks, she goes largely ignored by her peers--despite her bold fashion choices. So when cute, popular Luis starts to pay attention to her, Ari finally feels seen. Luis's attention soon turns to something more, and they have sex at a party--while Ari didn't say no, she definitely didn't say yes. Before she has a chance to process what happened and decide if she even has the right to be mad at Luis, the rumor mill begins churning--thanks, she's sure, to Luis's ex-girlfriend, Shawni. Then Ari finds a mysterious note in her locker that eventually leads her to a group of students determined to expose Luis for the predator he is. To her surprise, she finds genuine friendship among the group, including her growing feelings for the very last girl she expected to fall for. But in order to take Luis down, she'll have to come to terms with the truth of what he did to her that night--and risk everything to see justice done"
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Rubi Ramos's recipe for success
by Jessica Parra
Waitlisted at her college of choice, Rubi Ramos competes in the First Annual Bake Off while dealing with her crush on her cute surfer-slash-math-tutor and finds her life going in a different direction than she imagined as she stirs things up. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Marcus Vega doesn't speak Spanish : a novel
by Pablo Cartaya
When a fight at school puts him on probation, Marcus reluctantly accompanies his mother and younger brother to Puerto Rico to spend a week with relatives he has never met, a situation that is complicated by his awareness of his absent father's presence on the island. Simultaneous eBook.
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Ander & Santi were here : a novel
by Jonny Garza Villa
When their parents hire Santiago Garcia, a hot new waiter, nonbinary teen Ander Lopez immediately falls in love, and through Santi's eyes, understands everything they are and want to be as an artist, until the outside world creeps in, threatening everything. 75,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Last sunrise in Eterna
by Amparo Ortiz
Scavenging and selling elf corpses to support her family, 17-year-old goth Sevim finds a chance encounter with an elf prince setting her revenge in motion and must enter the magical elven realm where her fate is linked to someone she least expected. 35,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Wings in the wild
by Margarita Engle
When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba
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Saints of the household
by Ari Tison
After breaking up a fight that harms their school's star soccer player in the process, two Bribri American brothers have to lay low due to their physically abusive father and grapple with the weight of their actions to find their way forward. Simultaneous eBook.
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Ophelia after all
by Racquel Marie
A romantic at heart, Ophelia Roja deals with friendship drama and her own queerness at the end of high school, forcing her to choose between the fantasy version of herself that she's always imagined—or finally revealing who she really is. 35,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Lakelore
by Anna-Marie McLemore
"Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape rumored to be half-air, half-water. But Bastián Silvano and Lore Garcia are the only ones who've been there...Then the lines between air and water begin to blur. The world under the lake drifts above the surface. If Bastián and Lore don't want it bringing their secrets to the surface with it, they have to stop it and to do that, they have to work together"
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Lobizona
by Romina Garber
When her mother is arrested by ICE, sixteen-year-old Argentinian Manu--who thinks she is hiding in a Miami apartment because she is an undocumented immigrant--discovers that her entire existence is illegal
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Don't ask me where I'm from
by Jennifer De Leon
Reinventing herself at a privileged white suburban high school to get by in the face of escalating racial tensions, a first-generation American-LatinX teen is forced to take a stand when she discovers that her absent father cannot legally return home. A first novel. 125,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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Never look back
by Lilliam Rivera
In an Own Voices retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, a girl moves to the Bronx after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina and bonds with a talented bachata singer before their relationship is tested by the demons of the past. 75,000 first printing.
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Manuelito : a graphic novel
by Elisa Amado
To avoid being forced into the drug gang that has taken control of his Guatemalan village, thirteen-year-old Manuelito sets out on a hazardous journey to America in search of asylum
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Home by Julio Anta"After being separated from his mother at the US border, a young Guatemalan immigrant must lean to harness his emerging super-human abilities while being hunted by the federal government. Julio and Anna Wieszczyk debut with a deeply grounded and heartfelt graphic novel that explores the real-world implications of a migrant with extraordinary powers."
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Season of the bruja
by Aaron Duran
"From a young age, Althalia knew she would someday be the last of her kind--a bruja, tasked with keeping the power and stories of the ancient ways from fading fully into history. Never alone, Althalia works in a paranormal museum with her friends while living with and caring for her beloved abuela. But the prejudice her people have always faced continues, and after a seemingly random encounter with a priest, Althalia feels the weight of hundreds of years of religious oppression coming down upon her and her abuela. She must realize her destiny and grow into it quickly if she is to prevent the church from achieving its ultimate goal--destroying the last bruja"
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America Chavez.
by Robbie Thompson
"Sparks fly as America meets the teenage Loki...and their soon-to-be allies in the Young Avengers! Then, the inspirational powerhouse goes to college! Her first assignment? A field trip...to the front lines of World War II...with Captain America as her wingman! And, when she finally finds the family she has been searching for, a new life awaits--but Exterminatrix and the Midas Corporation have set their sights on America. Her newly discovered home teeters on the brink of implosion. And the biggest danger...may be America herself!"
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